They also found that when exposed to stress hormones called glucocorticoids, the astrocytes remove too many connections (synapses) between brain cells. Synapses link sensory organs in the peripheral nervous system to the brain, allowing signals related to sensations like pai...
With mental health increasingly being addressed worldwide, it's important to frame anxiety disorders and their treatments correctly. When is anxiety a problem? Anxiety becomes a problem when it crosses from being an occasional...
Dr. Monica Johnson is a clinical psychologist and owner of Kind Mind Psychology, a private practice in NYC that specializes in evidenced based approaches to treating a wide range of mental health issues (e.g. depression, anxiety, trauma, and personality disorders). Additionally, she has a focus...
Eating mostly unprocessed food should preclude consuming much sugar, but there are many so-called “healthy” foods that are loaded with added sugar, such as yogurt, smoothies, bottled teas, and energy bars. Sugar goes by many names, and it doesn’t matter if it’s called high fructose cor...
Digital therapeutics (DTx) are a new frontier in healthcare, offering evidence-based therapeutic interventions through digital platforms. These therapeutic solutions often involve apps or software designed to manage or treat various health conditions, such as diabetes, mental health disorders, and chronic...
Alcohol abuse occurs before alcohol addiction, and treatment should be discussed with your doctor. If alcohol abuse continues to develop into an alcohol addiction, however, there is still hope: manytreatment optionsexist for alcohol addiction and alcohol use disorders. People should always seek a pro...
Spanking or slapping your children may increase the odds that they will develop mental health issues that plague them in adulthood, a new study also suggests last year. Researchers in Canada found that up to 7 percent of a range of mental health disorders were associated withphysical punishment,...
and similar difficulties predict negative social and wider health outcomes across a range of psychiatric and mental health conditions2,3,4. Despite clear individual differences in the ability to read others’ emotional expressions, little is known about why these individual differences exist. Here we ...
A study published in Psychiatry Research shows that night owls may face higher rates of depression and anxiety. Dr. Jamie Zeitzer, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, explains how going to bed late could impact our mental health
the American Psychiatric Association will look to include obesity as a mental disorder in the next iteration of theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), as there is growing evidence that obesity may be causally related to maladaptive patterns of neural responsivity in the ...